Safe In Your Arms (Joe Sugg/ThatcherJoe fanfiction)

Chapter 14 - Being Home

I woke up in a hospital room, Ericka was sitting in a chair crying. "Ericka?" I croaked, her eyes shot up at me. "Kate!" she got up and engulfed me in a hug "Oh god! You scared me Kate" "What happened?" I started rubbing my eyes, Ericka sat on the side of the bed "You took another asthma attack and you blacked out" "How long was I out?" "Around 15 minutes, but you still scared me!" "At least it wasn't four days this time!" I giggled. "Oh Kate, I've missed you."

While Joe was here I tried spending all my time with him and I hadn't really seen Ericka. "I've missed you too!" I hugged her again and a nurse came in "Katie, you're awake!" I smiled at the nurse "I'll go get the doctor" the nurse left the room and returned a few minutes later with my doctor. "Young Katie! I'm Dr. Jones" The doctor spoke to me about things I should do while having asthma attacks and he spoke a lot of medical stuff. He then spoke about how I should put some weight on, which I have been trying to do. "But other than that we can discharge you when your parents get here" Dr. Jones smiled and left with the nurse. Ericka turned to me "Are you going to L.A?" I nodded and she squealed, "Cas, asked me if I'd go with him yesterday!" We spoke for a while and we caught up with each other until my parents arrived. I got discharged and we headed home. I basically went straight to bed because I was exhausted and it was quite late now. I kept tossing and turning so I couldn't sleep. I decided I should call Joe, so I grabbed my phone and looked for his number.

"Hello Kat" "Hey" "What's wrong?" I had to tell him straight away "Well... I was in hospital today" "What happened Kat?" "I had another asthma attack, but it wasn't as bad as the first one" "I'm so sorry Kat, I should've been there" "No it's not your fault" "How did you have the attack in the first place?" Oh god! I had to question him about the picture. I started taking deep breaths, tears were already forming in my eyes. "Well the day I left London I got an email..."

I went on and told Joe everything up until Tom arrived at Starbucks, "then someone sat down and it was Tom, he told me he had pictures of you that I hadn't seen. I didn't want to see them but before I could get up he showed me them" I bit down on my lip hard trying not to let tear escape from my eyes "What were the pictures of?" this was the first time Joe had spoke since I started rambling. I took a breath "It was you...kissing another girl. He said it was taken when I was in hospital" tears were now running down my face and I started sobbing hard again. "Kat calm down, I'd never do that to you! I was there the whole time Kat, you know that!" I tried to control my tears, "It was a blond girl" I muffled. Joe sighed, "Kat, that photo was taken the day before I met you. She was an old friend and we were out with a bunch of friends and everyone was really drunk. It ended in us kissing and then I threw up on her dress. And I guess throwing up on a girls favourite dress is a turn off" I giggled. I had to trust Joe, nothing Tom said could change the way I felt about Joe. "Please believe me Kat" "I do believe you Joe, I just need to get over all this crap" "Okay, well when you want to talk I'll be here. I'll let you get some sleep I love you Kat" "I'll call you in the morning! I love you Joesph" "Good night Katie" "Good night Joe" We hung up the phone and I fell asleep straight away.

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A COUPLE DAYS LATER

"So how's college Kate?" Ericka asked "Well, it's going good. I've only got a couple weeks left" "That's amazing, what are you gonna do afterwards?" I hadn't told Ericka about moving to London yet. I asked if we could hang out today so I could tell her but I was scared. "Well, I, um-" Ericka's phone started ringing.

"Cas! I have missed you so much" she paused to let Caspar talk "Yeah I'm just out with Kate, yeah she's good" she turned to me, then she covered the bottom of her phone "Joe says hi" then she returned to her conversation. I text Joe saying 'You can call me yourself and hey!x' he replied within seconds. 'Wouldn't want to ruin your mate date;)x' I giggled a little 'You don't have to, Ericka's basically drooling over Cas x' "Okay Cas, I'll skype you when I'm home. Love you. Bye!" Ericka hung up and went back to our conversation.

"What were we talking about?" she took a sip of her latte "Oh we-" "I remember! What are you gonna do after college?" I took a deep breathe, "Please don't be mad Ericka!" "Why would I be mad at you?" "Joe asked me to move in with him after I finish my course" there was a few moments of silence "I'm sorry Eri-" "I'm so happy for you!" Well she took it better than planned. "I thought you'd be mad" I was so relieved "I'm not mad, just jealous!"

We spoke about loads of detail for when I move to London. When we were finished our drinks we walked back to my house. Ericka had some fancy dinner with her mum tonight so she asked if she could borrow a dress. I had went from being in kids clothes to a size 8 since I started eating again so it meant Ericka and I were the same size. We spent about an hour trying to pick a dress, Ericka was trying and re-trying dresses and she finally settled on a dark blue short dress. "Thanks Kate! Mum will love this" I checked the time and noticed it was 5:24 "Ericka you better go before you're late!" "Oh god, you're right. I'll text you later, thanks again bye!" and with that Ericka left.

I opened my computer and prepared myself to write a 10 page essay about 'Infection Control in a Veterinary centre.' I spent 3 hours typing up the essay. My parents had came home in the time I had taken to write the essay. Dad was making enchiladas and they were gonna watch 'The Lion King' together. I grabbed a blanket and curled up on the sofa.

We all spent the rest of the night stuffing our faces and watching Disney films. I loved moments like this, these were the things I lived for.